Architectures and Bandwidth Allocation Schemes for Hybrid Wireless-Optical Networks

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 427-468

  Sarigiannidis, Antonios G ^a   Iloridou, Maria ^a   Nicopolitidis, Petros ^a   Papadimitriou, Georgios ^a   Pavlidou, Fotini Niovi ^a   Sarigiannidis, Panagiotis G ^b   Louta, Malamati D ^b   Vitsas, Vasileios ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^c ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Access networks; DBA; FiWi; hybrid wireless optical; integrated architectures; LTE; passive optical networks; WiFi; WiMAX

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SURVEYS; WI-FI; WIMAX; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACCESS NETWORK; DBA; FIWI; HYBRID WIRELESS; INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURE; LTE;

PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84961290263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2014.2356640     Document Type: Review

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